Did Hanzo just receive a huge indirect nerf?

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Under bug fixes for Mercy:

“Fixed a bug that allowed Mercy to damage boost certain abilities (e.g. Hanzo’s Dragonstrike)”

Can she no longer boost dragonstrike? That would be a game changer.

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Nothing indirect about it. Also, nothing buggy about it. Blizz are disguising it as something that isn’t working as intended to justify the nerf to those that disagree with it. The game has been around for over 2 years and Mercy has been damage boosting Ults the whole time. If it was really a bug, it would have been squashed long ago

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A lot of people ask’d for that.
Since one dmg boost can make a zen ulty useless.
And it makes no sence that Anas nano didn’t work but Mercy boost work’d.
You can still use zen orb for more dmg on the dragon.

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Yeah, I just think it’s strange that it hasn’t been given more attention.

I’m sure it was a bug, as it was super inconsistent, and the reason for not fixing it earlier is probably that noone bothered boosting the dragons before. But considering how much it has been relied on since the Hanzo rework, you’d think they would have made this bit more promiment in the notes.

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Blizzard like to word things like that.
Remember the “bug” that let moira heal behind barriers ?
What a silly and unintended bug that was. :joy:

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Is that the guy who said something about opinions as truths left and right? Well let me correct you son. Nano works (at least last patch) on dragons.

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It’s a good change, now that Mercy can’t Damage Boost a Dragon Strike there’s a reason to play Ana instead - a Biotic Grenade into the Graviton Surge beats the Transcendance.

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I don’t see any problems here.

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This change is good, but it should have gone to character patch notes instead of bug fixes. Marking it as a bug is just unprofessional. Like “it was here for 2 years and we’ve never noticed this bug because we don’t play our game”.

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Games are better when rules are consistent and Mercys damage boost has always affected projectiles. Hanzo’s ult is definitely a projectile launched from his bow, so her damage boost should affect it. Having it not affect it is just creating a situation where we have rules for some and not for others and that’s bad.

Other situations where this occur are with Pharah hurting herself with missiles whereas Junk doesn’t. At least with this it’s documented that Junk has a special passive that makes him immune for some reason.

To claim this is a “bug” is nonsense. I call it bad design.

PS - Another inconsistancy here is how Moira’s healing doesn’t go through barriers. Moira’s healing is a stream ability and those go through barriers in cases like with Zarya.

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Mercy shouldn’t affect abilities, plus the dragon strike is only a projectile the first few meters, and that arrow then gets destroyed. Also, the dragons are considered their own entities, so it’s not Hanzo that does the damage. That’s why they remain after Hanzo dies. Similar to Dvas mech, which will still detonate after she dies, and no longer gets bonus damage from boosting baby dva.

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Hardly going to change him, he is opaf.

He has basically been made a “hitscan” hero with this projectile speed buff, it’s stupid.

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When he can no longer wipe a team through trans, he’s no longer going to be in every match. Combined with a decent nerf to his assault rifle, oh i mean bow, he’s likely to see quite a lot less playtime in the higher ranks. He’s always been in every match in the lower ones, nothing will change that :joy:

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Didn’t as it use to not work with it they changed it to work, just not sure when it was patch’d since i do take break’s from this game from time to time.

I did some research just to make sure and i have yet to see a legit test to this other then people on the forum’s saying that it does. But i’m sure that it work’s atm.

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I thought that was an intentional thing in the game. I always keep the damage beam on on my hanzo after he dragonstrikes. I didn’t knew that was a bug.

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Mercy Mains

insert picture of Giorgio Tsoukalos here

i legit dk anymore whatever you’re trolling or being serious

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I have to agree here i much ratter see hanzos dmg go down so that mercy can buff it, It does 150 per second, per dragon and with mercy boost its enoght to outdmg zen’s ulty healing.Since zen does 300 hps and hanzo’s 2 dragons do 300 dps it feels nice and since its 150 it means that it won’t oneshot any 200 hp heroes, If they made it so that even with mercy boost it didn’t outdmg/oneshot 200 hp heroes inside tanse it will feel much better.
You might use Ana’s nade for more healing power but if that does more DPS and if that DPS gets to 200 its just to much.
But this fix is awso ok since its still the same ulty but now Mercy can heal someone not that anyone will need healing once the other team is in grav but its better for her in the end of the day since it lets her be more free.

This is just discrimination, and you’re still trying to meme on people when you want to convey something, how can you expect anyone to take you seriously when you’r just memeing and being passiv agressing to people? Will you take anyone seriously when his memeing in an argument ? Gona say this again most of your post on the forum are you just you memeing and trolling why are you even on the forums when i have yet to see you suggest one thing that will even by mistake end up making the game better.

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If you want consistent behavior, being able to boost dragons should also mean she could boost Dva bomb, riptire, traps etc. Which she could before the fix, but it doesn’t make sense.

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if you notice i quote on quote “meme” when people talk bs

and i find it funny that the majority of people who talk bs are ,well , mercy mains

what are the chances

and who you to judge me anyways

dont like the way i speak , you’re more than welcome to never quote me

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You’re the epic troll here Volrex. None of your posts are constructive or have any thought behind them. It’s all just “Me hate Mercy!” :sweat_smile: